Students Worksheet

Limit at Infinity of Algebraic Function

STEP 1 | Limit at Infinity of Algebraic Function

Lets solve the problem below and discuss with your teammate!

1
f ( x )=
Find the value of x
2

with x (Towards to infinity)

Observe graph below and use your calculation to complete the following table

x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1
f ( x )=rhatikan tabel0,2
berikutasalahan berikut ini .engisi titiktitik dibaw 2
1 . . . . . . . x
5

2 3 4
x 10 10 10

1
f ( x )=rhatikan tabel berikutasalahan berikut ini .engisi titiktitik
dibaw 2
0,0001 x

Based on table above, lets try to complete the following equation

lim f (x )= lim =
x x

Based on problem above, what can you be concluded from limit at infinity?
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STEP 2 | Infinite Limit of Algebraic Functions

Like the problem before, lets try to solve the following problem and discuss with your
teammate!

1
f ( x )=
Find the value of x2

+
with x 0 (Towards to zero from right)

Notice the table and graph below and use your calculation to complete the following table

x 1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1

x 102 103 106 0

1
f ( x )=rhatikan tabel berikutasalahan berikut ini .engisi titiktitik
dibaw 2
100 . . x

Based on table above, lets try to complete the following equation

lim f ( x )= lim =
x x
Based on problem above, what can you be concluded from infinite limit?

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STEP 3 | Determining value of limit at infinity of rational function

f (x)
In this step, we will find value of limit at infinity with the rational form ( lim
x g (x ) ) with

f ( x ) and g( x) are polynomials

Calculate :
2
3 x 4
lim 2
x 2 x + x+1

Solution :

f (x )
lim
In the problem above, if it make in form x g(x) ,

then f ( x )= and g ( x ) =

Therefore, the highest power of f (x) is x and the highest power of g( x) is x

.Then the higher power is . .After we found the highest power, now we can solve the
problem.

3 x 24
3 x 24 x
lim 2
= lim 2
x 2 x + x+1 x 2 x + x+ 1

(divided by highest power)

lim .
x

.

lim lim
x x


lim lim lim
x
+ x + x

=
++
 3 x 24
So, the value of lim = .
x 2 x 2 + x+1

Now, lets solve this in your own paper!

4 x 5 +6 x 27
lim
x x 5 +7 x3 +3
STEP 4 | Determining value of limit at infinity of irrational function

In this step, we will find value of limit at infinity with the rational form ( lim [ f ( x ) g (x)] )
x

with f ( x ) and g(x) is square root form. To solve it, we should use algebraic

f ( x ) g( x )
manipulation, it means multiplied by its conjugate f ( x ) g( x ) so that became

p(x)
lim
x q (x ) .

Calculate :

lim ( 3 x3 4 x1 )
x

Solution :

Conjugate of 3 x3 4 x1 is

+
+

Then we solve the problem above by multiplied by its conjugate

+
lim ( 3 x3 4 x1 )= lim ( 3 x3 4 x1 )
x x +

lim
x +

Then, numerator and denominator divided by the highest power of denominator. The highest
power of denominator is .So :

lim
lim x
x
lim =
x

+
x
lim lim + lim lim
x x x


+

lim ( 3 x3 4 x1 )=
The value of x

2 x 26 x +5 4 x 23 x 4
Now, lets solve this in your own paper! lim
x